La Folle Journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro
La Folle Journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro") is a comedy in five acts by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (usually referred to simply as "Beaumarchais", 1732-1799)[1]. (The texts of the Beaumarchais play and the popular Mozart opera based on it, are both often both referred to simply as Le Mariage de Figaro or The Marriage of Figaro)
The original text
Most probably written in 1778 as the second of a trilogy of plays entitled Le Roman de la Famille Almaviva, with the others being La Folle Journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro[2] (1778) and L'Autre Tartuffe ou La Mère coupable (1792)[3].
First performed in Paris on 23 and 25 February, 1775 at the Comédie-Française and was published by Ruault, Paris, in the same year.
written in 1778 by Pierre Beaumarchais. This play is the second in the Figaro trilogy, preceded by The Barber of Seville and followed by The Guilty Mother.[1]
